Debra - I love it, too! :-)
Debra - LOL! I'm telling you ... these plants have a mind of their own and a timing of their own! Glad to hear the BAW finally germinated and grew! Better late than never! lol
This is the other blooms on DFNM. If you notice any forming seed pods, you'll see that they are yellow and shriveling up. All these blooms and NO seed pods! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!
Becky, very unusual blooms on the DFNM, does look like
it's feathering.
Mauve Splash is so pretty.
The Sazanami bloom is drop dead gorgeous.
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Wedding Bells a couple of days ago.
Jackie - Thank you for your kind comments! Your Wedding Bells are beautiful!!! How is the weather up there now? Getting cooler? It was so humid and hot today, you could cut the air with a knife to slice it! Ugh ...
More freaky blooms on DFNM. I did not see this on the original vine that I grew out in the Spring. This is the F1 from my grow-out. Still not a single seed pod. Nadda one. Maybe this vine has mutated too many generations and is now completely sterile. It's just too bizzarre! I am getting seeds from every vine except this one and Sazanami. (I do see 2 seed pods forming on Sazanami, but am not getting excited until they ripen. Many look good and then turn yellow and fall off the vine before ever producing seeds.) But everything else has produced at least a few seed pods. :-)
Two blooms on Mauve Splash that were so close together it looked like a double bloom! lol I am seeing the twisty blooms now on this one too. Who know?! Anyway, I am seeing seed pods on this vine! :-)
love those wedding bells, jackie.. I had to cut mine down to bring in for winter.. here is hoping..
Becky lovely colours on display from you today
Becky, the weather here weird to say the least.
The high yesterday was 59 and just in the 60's today.
It's the rain though that has everyone worried.
Already 13 inches above normal and 3 months left to
add to the total. Was so worried that my pandy would
rot in April and May and now have to worry about
losing her again,
they look cute like that in the picture Becky, nice bright blue too... do you always get such a variation in nil blooms like the Sazanami and Mauve splash?
love the colour on those Wedding Bells Jackie.... hope you don't lose the pandy :-)
Thanks Becky, Debra and Colin
Thanks, Debra!
Jackie - Ooooh! That's a lot of rain. I hope it clears up soon. It has been a weird weather year here too. Stay warm! Good luck with your Pandy's survival.
Colin - Thanks! This is my first year growing Sazanami and Mauve Splash, so I don't know if all these bloom variations are normal for these vines or not. I suspect that they are! I got more of the split petal blooms on the DFNM today. The vine had a lot of them.
Beautiful blooms Jackie and Becky!!
Edid to say: Your bloom from Dany and Debra are awesome too!
Not sure which the name of this one.
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And a small bloom from Fujishibori.
This one is torn up by bad weather but the color is dark dusky Fujishibori.
Chocolate speckles are possible too. All I did was cross Chocolate x Mount Fuji X Fujishibori and the go through process of starting seeds and culling the cotyledons and here she is. This was in the F3. I want a larger flower though. Well that means try again for the goal! There are two other chocolate speckled ones in two other grow outs as well. The sky is the limit. You can get just about any color and form you want if you work for it and have a lot of patience.
Karen
Picture of chocolate speckled morning glory.
Helena, the 1st bloom apperars to be a cute little Milky Way type.
I enjoyed the one I had growing on the fence this fall. Your Fuji
Shibori looks so much better than mine. All my shibori blooms were ugly, mutated looking.
Karen, love the dark Shibori, really pretty and different.
Same for Choc Speckles
Helena - Nice Milky Way! Love your Fujishibori bloom! I love those speckled blooming vines!
Karen - Nice speckles, too!
thanks becky...
Helena, cute Milky Way and Fujishibori blooms.... i had a Fujishibori earlier this year that threw some very odd blooms too Jackie.. but i wouldn't call them ugly :-))))) ... i put it down to the cool wether we had....
Karen, this one is nice: http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/p.php?pid=7148135
GREAT JOB ! Karen with your chocolate speckled.
I'm sure next year you have Black speckled with Black King.
That choc speckled is nice. I love the Fujishibori . I have brought in most of my young vines. I am still bringing in the "ropes" of pods, they are in pillow cases. I am going to run them thru the dyer for three minutes to get the moisture off the leaves. What do you think of that? Let me know.. Hige is happy in its' spot in the basement green house..
Thanks everyone. I plan on growing at least 3 to a pot next year for a better show and more seeds.
Very gorgeous blooms Karen, I love those huge ones.
Nice hige too Debra, I should grow some next year!
Thank you all! I`m tired from all that work this summer but I`m happy. Winter is time for resting and plotting my next strategies for gardening.
Dany, You are correct! Black King is the darkest dusky and speckled Black King can be real in the future! I compared black King next to other dusky and he is the King. :)
Now that also means a very dark chocolate is possible. I hope a large flower is possible. The Fujishibori babies I worked with seem to devide off in different types of both large and small flower. They can even carry for dwarfing or have hidden mutant genes! This could be a latent sign of cross pollination or perhaps the work of Japanese breeders who created a variety and something that can be worked with. It is like making a recipe for a delicacy. The hypocotyles often tell the story of parentage if you know what to look for so selection helps a lot. I have been culling the babies when they are tiny to find the speckles and remove the ones that are not speckles so I don`t waste growing space and to be able to concentrate on a specific goal and the surprises are always going to be there! You can count on a few surprises. My Chocolate speckled was sort of a surprise. I was working for the chocolate speckles but had to grow a lot to find it.
Karen
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Helena - How big are the pots that you grow your vines in? I just grow one per 5 gallon pot and they get quite large. Yours will look really bushy with 3 vines in each pot! :-)
Karen - Speckled Black King would be cool!
Got a normal bloom and an unusual bloom on my Sazanami yesterday. This is the typical bloom as everyone knows ...
And here is the unusual bloom. Almost looks like a double bloom. It had not one but two flags growing from it's throat. The one flag was large. Cool, huh?
Wow, awesome blooms Becky!!
Becky, most of the 2nd grow out are 1 gallon pots. Some of my Spring grow out were in 3 gallon pots, that's what I'm thinking of doing next year maybe have 3 vines to bigger pots. Last year after my vines were mature I planted them in the ground too and they did just fine but when I wanted to put them in the same spots this year I found too many roots from shrubs and trees so do I put in the ground or not. I think maybe pots will be easier.
How unusual Becky, has the weather turned a little cooler there?
Wondering if that might account for the strange Sazanami bloom.
Regardless, they're both beautiful blooms.
Helena - I just leave all my MG vines in pots now. I am using those 5 gallon buckets that my dh brings home. But I am telling you ... one vine takes up a LOT of space using the teepee poles. I try to keep the poles to 6 feet because I can still reach the blooms for hand-pollinating! I think I will be growing a lot of plants in those containers. The soil here is awful and to have anything successfully grow in the ground, it has to be amended twice a year. I can't do that. So pots are the next best solution for me. :-) I just wish I had more time, as it gets dark sooner now that the winter months are approaching.
Jackie - No, unfortunately, the weather here is hot, humid, and horribly miserable. It got cool for like 2 days several weeks ago, but I am wondering if we are setting record highs for this time of year. Someone told me the other day that the heat index was 105 degrees. Ugh! I believe it! I melt during recess with the kids at school. It is so hot and humid that I don't even like to be outside. Evening temps are in the middle 70's and muggy. Not nice temps at all. Though some plants in my yard seem to like it! LOL! But I sure don't. I want cooler weather...
WOW
Becky,pretty flamingo dance movement in your Sazanami flower !
Thanks, Dany! It DOES look like a Flamingo dancer! lol
Well, not sure what the heck is going on with my blooms. My guess ... fertilizer! I wonder if this is how the Japanese get their weird blooms, too! I have heard they feed them lots of bloom producing fertilizer too! Maybe they have MiracleGro Bloom Booster in Japan? lol
Several of mine have morphed blooms. Here is Pink Kikyo which now looks like something else entirely...
This is my Diluted Fuji no Muraski now looking quite odd.
Another DFNM bloom. These are all the same vines I've been growing since August. Weird, huh?
And here is Ishidatami, which is supposed to have split petal blooms. But on this vine, most have been full blooms without splits, unlike this typical bloom. Kinda crazy!!! Makes no sense to me ...
This is I. indica still going strong. This vine is loaded currently with buds.
See the yellow, dead leaf to the left. Check out the next photo ...
If you look just above my name and to the left of the dead leaf ... you will see a rather large wasps nest. They built that nest right on the I. indica vine. Not knowing it was there, I got stung a week ago pulling off dead leaves.
Well, today I got justice! I sprayed with wasps killer bug spray 9 wasps nests and wiped them all out! Now maybe my butterfly caterpillars will have a fighting chance to reach maturity without being served as food to the wasps young! Grrrrr ...
I also think that my sick looking squirrel was stung by a wasps, which may account for the squirrels swollen face. I just have a feeling about this ...
Spanish Flag vines are blooming like crazy again. :-) Maybe I will get some seeds finally?
Mauve Splash produced a white bloom with mauve stripes. Kinda cool!
Great blooms Becky.
I am loving the bloom action in your yard and gardens.. I really like how that Sazanami is doing for you.
How big is the i. indica bloom?
